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Founded in 1999 with Malawaian vocalist Esau Mwamwaya fronting the daring production of London-based DJ duo Radioclit, The Very Best released the critically acclaimed mixtape “Esau Mwamwaya and Radioclit are the Very Best” in 2008. The mixtape was equally indebted to traditional African musical traditions and their corresponding Western interpretations. The most bizarre example of this, perhaps, was seeing Mwamwaya sing in Chichewa over Vampire Weekend’s “Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa” in a bold, globally-minded move to transcend the African sound and enter the arena...
Late in the night at Avigail, Yehoshafat runs through a list of erev rav that ranges from Jewish kapos, who aided the Nazis during the Holocaust, to an Israeli-Palestinian coexistence group. "Esau always wants to hurt Jacob," he says, referring to the biblical enmity between the wicked son of Isaac and his good brother, whom God renamed Israel and made father to the Jews. "We had erev rav 5,000 years ago, and we have them today." In these dusty hills, the Old Testament is closer to Yehoshafat and his friends than the government in Jerusalem 25 miles away...
Though Kugel's jests are usually received in good spirit, the professor learned that some sports players in the course took offense when he described Jacob's brother Esau as an "undiscerning athlete...
...Though Kugel's jests are usually received in good spirit, the professor learned that some sports players in the course took offense a few weeks ago when he described Jacob's brother Esau as an "undiscerning athlete...
...novelist's) ability to see the patriarchal dramas through the eyes of each participant, seldom condemning and usually illuminating. Panelist Naomi Rosenblatt is a psychotherapist, and her Wrestling with Angels (Delta, with co-author Joshua Horwitz) features the subheadings "When Children Become Hostage to Their Parents' Marriage" (Jacob, Esau, Isaac, Rebekah) and "Setting Limits on Self-love" (Joseph...